Vance Gabriel Plauché
| Vance Gabriel Plauché | |
United States Representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district (since disbanded)
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| In office January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943 | |
| Preceded by | René L. De Rouen |
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| Succeeded by | Henry D. Larcade, Jr. |
| Born | August 25, 1897 Plauchéville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana |
| Died | April 2, 1976 (aged 78) |
| Resting place | Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Marie Amire Bush Plauché (married 1923-1976, his death) |
| Children | Vance William Plauché |
| Residence | Lake Charles, Louisiana |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Vance Gabriel Plauché (August 25, 1897 – April 2, 1976) was an attorney from Lake Charles, Louisiana, who represented his state's 7th congressional district, since disbanded, in the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, Plauché served for a single term from 1941 to 1943.
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Background
Plauché (pronounced "PLO-SHAY") was born in Plauchéville in Avoyelles Parish[1] to Étienne Arthur Plauché (1869-1929) and the former Maria A. Grémillion (born 1872; date of death unavailable), who were wed on December 1, 1890.[2] Plauché was educated in public and private schools in Marksville, the Avoyelles parish seat. In 1914, Plauché graduated from the Roman Catholic St. Francis Xavier's College in New Orleans (not to be confused with the predominantly African-American Xavier University of Louisiana. In 1918, he obtained his LL.B. degree from Loyola University, also in New Orleans, and was the president of his senior class.[3][4]
Career
Plauché was a law clerk in the office of the Louisiana attorney general from 1916 to 1918. During the same period, he was the secretary of the Louisiana Board of Pardons. Near the end of World War I, Plauché was a private in the United States Army from 1918 to 1919 stationed at Base Hospital 102 in Italy. He was admitted to the bar in 1918 and practiced law in the Lake Charles firm of Plauché and Plauché from 1920 to 1927. He then joined Oliver Stockwell in the partnership Plauché and Stockwell from 1934 to 1975.[3] The firm since became Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio, Clements & Shaddock.[5]
Plauché was a director of Calcasieu Savings and Loan Association and Plauché Engineering, Inc. He was the Lake Charles city attorney from 1928 to 1932 and the district counsel to the Home Owners' Loan Corporation from 1933 to 1935.[3]
In 1940, he campaigned for the successful gubernatorial candidate, Sam Houston Jones of Lake Charles, who unseated Earl Kemp Long in a primary runoff. In the Jones administration, Plauché was the secretary of the Louisiana Civil Service Commission and was a delegate to the Democratic State Convention in the capital city of Baton Rouge.[3] That same year he ran without opposition for a vacant seat in Congress when the Democratic incumbent René L. De Rouen (1874-1942) decided to retire.[6] Plauché did not seek reelection in 1942.
Personal life
Plauché was a member of the American and Louisiana bar associations and a trustee of the Lake Charles Public Library. He was also a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was active in the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, known as CODOFIL, the Kiwanis Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, and the Lake Charles Golf and Country Club. He was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Lake Charles. In 1949, he was named a "Knight of St. Gregory" by Pope Pius XII. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus men's organization and the "grand knight" of the Calcasieu Council No. 1207. He enjoyed the study of both ancient and modern history.[3]
On September 24, 1923, Plauché married the former Marie Amire Bush (1904-of New Orleans. They had a son, Vance William Plauché (1924-2013) of Lake Charles, who ran for Congress in 1968 as a Republican against the popular Democrat Edwin Edwards. Vance Plauché drew only 15.1 percent of the vote in that contest[7] in the same 7th congressional district that Plauché's father had represented twenty-eight years earlier for the single term in Congress.
Plauché died at the age of seventy-eight and is interred at Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles.[8][9] Vance William Plauché, his son, is interred at Prien Memorial Park in Lake Charles.[10]
References
- ↑ Plauché, Vance Gabriel. The Political Graveyard. Retrieved on May 17, 2020.
- ↑ Étienne Arthur Plauché. Plauche.bingen.org. Retrieved on May 17, 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Plauché, Vance Gabriel. A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography: Louisiana Historical Association. Retrieved on May 17, 2020.
- ↑ A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography uses the sources for its article on Vance Plauché: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971 (1971), Who’s Who in the South and Southwest (1950); Henry E. Chambers, A History of Louisiana (1925), the Lake Charles American Press, April 2, 1976, and Members of Congress Since 1789 (1977).
- ↑ [http://www.ssvcs.com/dyn.php?pg=About Stockwell and Sievert]. ssvcs.com. Retrieved on May 17, 2020; only the name of the firm and partners are listed at this site.
- ↑ "Hot Election Forecast for Louisiana Demo Primary," The St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, September 9, 1940, p. 3.
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 5, 1968; not on-line.
- ↑ Vance Gabriel Plauché. Findagrave.com. Retrieved on May 17, 2020.
- ↑ Plauché, Vance Gabriel. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. Retrieved on May 17, 2020.
- ↑ Vance William Plauché. Findagrave.com. Retrieved on May 17, 2020.
